[Web-SIG] WSGI 2.0 Round 2: requirements and call for interest

[Armin Ronacher]

Hi,

On 04/01/2016 16:30, Cory Benfield wrote:
> Your core question seems to be: “why do we need a spec that specifies
> concurrency?” I think this is reasonable. One way out might be to
> take the route of ASGI[0], which essentially uses a message broker to
> act as the interface between server and application. This lets
> applications handle their own concurrency without needing to
> co-ordinate with the server. From there the spec doesn’t need to
> handle concurrency, as the application and server are in separate
> processes.
I think the *only* way to scale websockets is to use an RPC system to 
dispatch commands and to handle fan out somewhere centralized.  This for 
instance works really well with redis as a broker.  All larger 
deployments of websockets I have worked with so far involved a simple 
redis to websocket server that barely restarts and dispatches commands 
(and receives messages) via redis.

That's a simple an straightforward way that still keeps deployments work 
well because you never restart the actual connections unless you need to 
pull a cable or you have a bug in the websocket server.

That's why I'm personally also not really interested in this topic as 
for large scale deployments this is not really an issue and for toy 
applications I do not use websockets ;)


Regards,
Armin